--- title: "Keepa API alternative: pricing and Amazon data compared" url: https://www.datawebot.com/compare/keepa-api-alternative description: "Compare the Keepa API and datawebot for Amazon product data: price history or current prices, monthly plans or credits, AI assistant access and when each fits." author: datawebot team --- Comparison # Keepa API alternative for ecommerce product data The Keepa API and datawebot both give your code or AI assistant Amazon product data. They answer different questions: Keepa is built on price history, datawebot on the price and details a product page shows when you ask. Updated November 1, 2026 · datawebot team ## At a glance **Keepa API:** the API of the Keepa Amazon price tracker. It returns Amazon products with price history back to 2011, sales rank, offers, deals, best sellers and sellers across 11 Amazon marketplaces, and has a hosted connector for AI assistants. **datawebot:** An MCP server and API that gives AI agents ecommerce product data: product search across online shops, every seller's price for a product, and extraction Jobs on store pages. | Topic | datawebot | Keepa API | | --- | --- | --- | | Built for | Current product data for agents and code, with one product schema for Amazon and other stores. | Amazon price and sales-rank history, offers, deals, best sellers and sellers. | | Coverage | Product search across online shops worldwide. Extraction Jobs on Amazon (20 countries), Walmart US and brand stores worldwide. | 11 Amazon marketplaces: US, UK, Germany, France, Japan, Canada, Italy, Spain, India, Mexico and Brazil. | | Price history | None. Each result is the price when it was read, with the time; store results to build your own history. | Price history back to 2011. Sales-rank, offer and stock histories start later, depending on the product. | | Output | Structured product records: title, price, currency, availability, seller and link, with the time each result was retrieved. | JSON, with prices as integers in cents and ready-made stats such as averages and lows. | | Pricing model | 200 free credits to start. A search costs 5 credits and a product read 1; Jobs cost 5 per search or catalogue page and 1 per product page. Failed requests are free. Packs from $10, and credits do not expire. | Monthly prepaid plans priced by request rate: Starter €49 for 20 tokens a minute, Developer €459 for 250, Business €2,499 for 2,000 and Enterprise €11,099 for 10,000. Unused tokens expire after 60 minutes. | | Access | MCP for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT and Claude; a REST API with an API key for your own code. | REST API with official Java and PHP clients and a community Python client; a hosted MCP connector for Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP clients, included in every plan. | Keepa API details are from [Keepa API overview and plans ↗](https://keepa.com/#!api), read on November 1, 2026. Plans change, so check their current page before deciding. datawebot details are from [our pricing](https://www.datawebot.com/pricing) and the [stores datawebot can extract](https://www.datawebot.com/scraper). ## When Keepa API is the better fit - You need price or sales-rank history, for example for back-tests, sales estimates or a price chart. - You want to filter Amazon products by sales, price and seller count across Keepa's database. - You want price alerts sent to a webhook. ## When datawebot is the better fit - You need the current price and details for products, and history is not the point. - Your volume is small or irregular, and you would rather buy credits that do not expire than a monthly plan. - You need the same product fields for Amazon, Walmart and other online stores from one API. - Your agent should search products across shops and compare every seller's price for one product. ## Run a fair test 1. Pick three products you track and one store search page you care about. 2. Write down the fields you need: price, currency, availability, seller and variant. 3. Ask each tool for the same products and pages, and compare completeness, how much clean-up the output needs, and the cost per useful record. [Connect your agent](https://www.datawebot.com/docs/agents) · [See every store you can extract](https://www.datawebot.com/scraper) ## A few useful answers. Is datawebot a Keepa API alternative? For current Amazon product data, yes: price, availability, rating, review count, seller, ASIN, GTIN, specs and images, read when you ask. For price history, no. datawebot does not keep history, so Keepa is the better fit when you need past prices. How much does the Keepa API cost? On November 1, 2026 Keepa listed API plans from €49 a month for 20 tokens a minute, up to €11,099 a month for 10,000 tokens a minute, with rates in between. Plans are prepaid monthly and can be cancelled any time. Check its pricing page for current plans. How much does datawebot cost for Amazon data? Every account starts with 200 free credits. An Amazon search costs 5 credits and a product read 1. The smallest pack is $10 for 10,000 credits, which covers 10,000 product reads or 2,000 searches. Credits do not expire and failed requests are free. Do both work with AI assistants? Yes. Keepa hosts an MCP connector that runs on an API plan. datawebot is an MCP server too: tell your agent to read https://mcp.datawebot.com/setup.md, and it can start on the free credits.